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ESCUELA SUPERIOR DE ARTE DRAMÁTICO Y
PROFESIONAL DE DANZA DEL PRINCIPADO DE
ASTURIAS
Superior School of Dramatic Art and Professional of
Dancing of the Principality of Asturias
Guide 2012-2013

WELCOME
Welcome to the Superior School of Dramatic Art and Professional of Dancing of
the Principality of Asturias (Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático y Profesional
de Danza – ESAD and PD). Since 2002 our school creates professionals of
performance through teaching which develops in an integrated manner artistic,
scientific and technological skills.
At present one can take at the ESAD and PD of Asturias superior studies of
Dramatic Art, specializing in Acting and the professionals of Dancing can
specialize inClassical Dancing.
The Superior School of Dramatic Art and Professional of Dancing of the
Principality of Asturias is also a nucleus of documentation, investigation,
promotion and diffusion of theatre in itself. Those who choose to enter the
ESAD ASTURIAS will find a centre that has the best conditions for not just an
adequate training but an excellent one. These conditions are:
1. ESAD ASTURIAS is a public centre and is therefore open to all kinds of
students without taking into account their socioeconomic standard.
2. Its Dramatic Art Studies have the level of degree and are within what is
established in the European Space of Superior Education agreements.
3. The student entrance test allows a restricted number of students per class
and group: 12 for practice subjects and 24 for theory subjects.
4. The opening timetable of the centre (from 8:00 to 21:30) allows the students
to have access to resources and classrooms to do their independent work.
5. Since the academic year 2006/2007 ESAD ASTURIAS is found at the noble
building of the Laboral University and it is part of the magnificent Project
Laboral, city of culture: a complex made up of the Laboral Theatre, the Modern
Art and Industrial Creation Centre and the Professional Conservatory of Music.
6. ESAD ASTURIAS students have access to wonderful facilities: 20
classrooms of suitable dimensions (voice, acting, dancing, corporal expression,
theory, etc.); two theatres, one in the school and the other being the Laboral
Theatre. The Laboral Theatre has recently been reformed and turned into one
of the best theatres in Spain with a seating capacity of 1200.
7. Twenty-seven teachers make up the staff.

HISTORY
In 2002 the Superior School of Dramatic Art of the Principality of Asturias is
created. Later on, in 2009 Professional Studies of Dancing are added becoming
then the Superior School of Dramatic Art and Professional of Dancing. Since
then various classes with a large number of superior professional graduates in
Dramatic Art have emerged. These graduates develop their artistic work not
only in Asturias but also in the rest of Spain and other places around the world.
In 2010 our School enters the European Space of Superior Education. Allowing
us to design studies in ECTS credits, establish post graduate courses (master’s
degree and PhD) and develop and reinforce the ERASMUS programme,
consolidate projects with other centres or entities, as well as other encounters
and exchanges (OLIVE: Meeting of Mediterranean Theatre Schools), literary
routes, collaborations with the Professional Conservatory of Music of Gijon, end
of degree work exchanges with other schools, etc… The Framework of Laboral,
city of culture means ideal facilities for teaching Dramatic Art. The remodelling
of the building has given us extraordinary scenic and pedagogical spaces for
the new conception of Art in the 21 st century.
www.laboralciudaddelacultura.com
MAIN VENUE
The Laboral University is the building where the ESAD and PD ASTURIAS
permanent main venue is located. It is on the outskirts of Gijon, in a landscape
of great beauty allowing total independence and other possibilities such as
exterior areas, very good for outdoor activities. It also has a parking with 300
spaces.
The building has 4 floors and a usable surface of more than 5.000 square
metres and has the following spaces:
Level - 1, scenography workshop and classroom- clothes storage.
Level 0, main Entrance to the school: the Alejandro Casona hall, theatre with a
capacity for 100 spectators and mobile
stands which allow usage of space in the
Italian way, circular, etc. On this level, the
Étienne Decroux room is also found where
movement subjects are given, as well as
the Manuel de Falla room for voice, music
and singing subjects. Lastly, the Director’s
Office, Head of Studies, Secretary, the
Artistic Promotion Department,
Administration and Council for Education
are also located on this floor.

Level 1, this floor is composed of the library, video
library, the Movement classrooms Marta Graham and
Rudolf Laban, 3 Theory classrooms, 3 Voice
classrooms, an Acting classroom El Público, the
Staffroom and 6 departments: Acting, Direction, Drama,
Voice, Movement and Artistic Promotion.
Level 2 has the Computer Science classroom and the
Rehearsal room, El tragaluz.
Level 3: Auditoriums Giorgio Strehler, Cipriane Rivas
Cheriff and Clara Ferrer, the Acting classrooms La
Celestina and La Gaviota and one Theory classroom.
The Characterization (make up) classroom is located
higher up, in one of the towers.
The students also have a place where they can eat.
Laboral, city of culture.

DIRECTORY
Council for Education: Call Centre: Tel: (+34) 985 18 55 40
Director
Eladio de Pablo López
esad-dir@educastur.princast.es
Tel: (+34) 985 18 55 41
Administration
Mª Dolores Vega del Valle
esadadministracion@educastur.princast.es
Tel: (+34) 985 18 55 44
Interpretation Department
Head of Department:
Enrique López Fernández
esadinterpretacion@educastur.princast.es
esad.interpretacion@gmail.com
Tel: (+34) 985 18 55 48
Direction Department
Head of Department:
Miguel S. Cegarra
esad-direccion@educastur.princast.es
esad.direccion@gmail.com
Tel: (+34) 985 18 55 50
Movement Department
Head of Department:
Ana María Pérez de Amézaga
esad-movimiento@educastur.princast.es
esad.movimiento@gmail.com
Tel: (+34) 985 18 55 52
Teaching Secretary
Begoña Martínez Cezón
esad-secre@educastur.princast.es
Tel: (+34) 985 18 55 45
Head of Studies
Joaquín Amores
esad-jefatura@educastur.princast.es
Tel: (+34) 985 18 55 46
Administration
Carmen Migoya Guijarro
esad-administracion@educastur.princast.es
Tel: (+34) 985 18 55 42
Drama Department
Head of Department:
Leopoldo García-Pumarino
esad-dramaturgia@educastur.princast.es
esad.dramaturgia@gmail.com
Tel: (+34) 985 18 55 49
Voice Department
Head of Department:
Ana Gil Aledo
esad-voz@educastur.princast.es
esad.voz@gmail.com
Tel: (+34) 985 18 55 51
Magazine Ars Dramatica
esad-arsdramatica@educastur.princast.es

Artistic Promotion Department
Head of Department:
Nora Casella López
esad-artisticas@educastur.princast.es
esadasturiascomunicacion@gmail.com
STUDY PLANS
International Relations. Erasmus
Coordinator:
Francisco Pardo Almansa
esad-erasmus@educastur.princast.es
erasmusesadasturias@gmail.com
Tel: (+34) 620672865
ESAD ASTURIAS gives superior degree education in 4 years. The study plan
has 4 academic years, 60 credits each one, with a total of 240 credits.
The profile defined in the speciality of Acting corresponds to an artist, creator,
interpreter and a communicator of signs using him/herself as an instrument;
integrating his/her expressive resources, body, voice and cognitive and
emotional resources while placing all of this at the service of the show. A
personal artistic vision combined with other artist’s visions is developed while
participating in the same artistic project. This professional will be prepared for
the exercise of investigation and teaching.
The Dramatic Art graduates in the speciality of Acting should have the following
specific skills at the end of their studies:
- Know the necessary expressive resources well so as to develop the
performance.
- Take part in the creation and interpret the score and / or role using their
knowhow of different performance techniques.
- Interact with the other languages that make up the show.
- Study to conceive and consolidate the personal creative process not only
what is related to work methodology but also to the updating of
aesthetics.
At present we have one speciality, Acting within the framework of the
Agreement of Bologna. With the previous study plan, from the academic year
2012-2012 onwards 4th years of Acting will be taken at the ESAD and PD of
Asturias.
According to the legislation in force (Ley Orgánica 2/2006), a calendar of
application of the new organization of the education system is established.
Therefore, the progressive implementation of the superior artistic education
graduates in Dramatic Art will begin in the academic year 2012-2013. All this is
regulated by the present royal decree and in the first year we will work with
European credits (ECTS).
The academic load emphasizes not just an eminently practical teaching but
another much more theoretical. This way the cultural intellectual knowledge
theorypractice consolidates a solid academic formation and prepares the future

candidate for the investigation and creation in the different areas of his / her
speciality.
The evaluation of the student’s learning process will be based on the degree
and level of acquisition and consolidation of the defined competitions for those
studies.
The evaluation will be divided in subjects. It will have a joining character related
to the defined competitions for each one in the study plans. The evaluation and
grading of the end of degree work will be unique. Passing it means that one has
passed all of the subjects that make up the study plans.
The evaluation criterions are objective and measurable according to the
parameters defined in the study plans. To obtain the title of Graduate in
Dramatic Art one must have passed all of the subjects. Practice subjects if
programmed and the end of degree work.
Negative marks in three or more subjects will impede the student from
promoting to the next year. Students have 4 exam periods to pass each subject.
The student cannot remain at the centre for more than 6 academic years.
The Acting Speciality gives the necessary theory and technical knowledge to
the student to become a specialist in the dramatic art field as a professional
theatre, film or television actor. The speciality of interpretation has 4 areas to
cover, one which is now being given at ESAD ASTURIAS: Textual Acting.

PRIMER CURSO
TEXTUAL ACTING
according to L.O.E. (Ley orgánica de educación, 2006).
• Interpretación I 14 ECTS
• Teoría de la Interpretación 5 ECTS
• Técnica Vocal I 7 ECTS
• Teoría y Práctica del verso 6 ECTS
• Lenguaje Musical 5 ECTS
• Expresión Corporal 8 ECTS
• Literatura dramática I 4.5 ECTS
• Fundamentos y Prácticas del Movimiento 3.5 ECTS
• Historia de las Artes Espectáculares 3.5 ECTS
• Caracterización 3.5 ECTS
SEGUNDO CURSO
• Interpretación II 13 ECTS
• Taller teatro Siglo de Oro 6 ECTS
• Técnica vocal II 7ECTS
• Lenguaje musical y Canto 6.5 ECTS
• Danza I 4.5 ECTS
• Esgrima 5 ECTS
• Historia de las Artes Espectaculares II 3.5 ECTS
• Indumentaria 3.5 ECTS
• Literatura dramática II 4 ECTS
• Teoría e historia del arte 4 ECTS
• Optativa 1 3 ECTS
TERCER CURSO
• Interpretación III 12 ECTS
• Taller teatro Contemporáneo 7 ECTS
• Expresión Oral I 6.5 ECTS
• Canto 5.5 ECTS
• Acrobacia y lucha espectacular 4.5 ECTS
• Danza II 5 ECTS
• Iniciación a la dirección escénica 5 ECTS
• Teoría y práctica de la escritura dramática 5 ECTS
• Semiología teatral 3.5 ECTS
• Optativa 2 3 ECTS
• Optativa 3 3 ECTS

According to L.O.G.S.E. (Ley orgánica de ordenación general del sistema
educativo, 1990)
CUARTO CURSO
• Interpretación IV 360 h 20 ECTS
• Expresión Oral II 90 h 4 ECTS
• Canto II 90 h 4 ECTS
• Dramaturgia II 90 h 12 ECTS
• Escenografía 90 h 12 ECTS
• Caracterización 90 h 4 ECTS
• Indumentaria 90 h 4 ECTS
If mobility refers to a single semester, the student will complete half of ECTS
credits for each subject chosen in the selected semester. Having two testing
dates for this purpose, one in February and one in June.
ARS DRAMATICA, THE MAGAZINE OF ESAD ASTURIAS
Ars Dramatica is the magazine of the Superior School of Dramatic Art and
Professional of Dancing of the Principality of Asturias.
With a yearly release it has already published numbers 00, 01, 02 and 03. Its
editorial council is made up of 5 teachers and 2 students. The average print run
is about 1.000 copies.
These are given out free or charge amongst the staff and students of the
school, institutes of secondary education in Asturias, professional companies
and Asturian amateurs, national theatre magazines, theatres and alternative
theatres, juvenile organizations, universities, etc.
“Ars Dramática” was born with the intention of being a window where teachers
and students from ESAD and other schools or universities, as well as artists,
creators and professionals of Scenic Arts can capture their reflexions on this
and on present theatre, establishing a rich dialogue for all.

At present the magazine has five sections:
- Pedagogical space: dedicated to ideas and opinions of a pedagogical
nature.
- School activities are also referred to in this section.
- Asturias stage: refers to theatre activities of Asturian companies.
- News: it reviews all that has been of interest within the school and outside
as well as in and outside of Asturias.
- Texts: invitation to publish texts with a limited duration.
- Requexu: this is the corner where opinions or creations of a diverse
nature can be found.
Ars Dramatica is managed by the Editorial Council, found within the Artistic
Promotion Department. It is financed with school funds and a small advertising
contribution.
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
The area of International Relations, part of the Artistic Promotion Department, is
the nexus of ESAD ASTURIAS with other countries, especially with European
Centres and Institutions.
ESAD ASTURIAS is part of the OLIVE project, Meeting of Mediterranean
Theatre Schools. Here, students and teachers from different Mediterranean
countries get together for a week to unify scenes from various authors and
exchange knowledge.
Since 2008, ESAD ASTURIAS has taken part in this event, celebrated every
year in the month of September in different European countries. ESAD
ASTURIAS aspires to become the main venue for OLIVE 2012.
The Erasmus programme is also managed from the area of International
Relations. It establishes contacts with European Superior Schools of Dramatic
Art and gives advice to students who are interested in participating in this
enriching experience.
Many artists visit us at Laboral, city of culture. Our students have the chance to
work closely with creators from all places around the world helping in staging,
courses and workshops.
These activities are arranged by the International Relations Area.

ERASMUS
The Erasmus grants allow students of the Superior School of Dramatic Art and
Professional of Dancing of second, third or fourth year of the studies of
Dramatic Art in Textual Acting. 3-12 months in European Schools of Dramatic
Art with whom they have signed an agreement to collaborate.
The Erasmus Grant only covers one monthly assignment. Students do not have
to pay any registration fee at the centre where they are assigned. However,
they must take on residence expenses, maintenance and travelling costs.
VALIDATIONS
Once the students have returned from Europe they must show the projects
done abroad to their respective specialities.
Once the period of the study grant has finished, the Superior School of
Dramatic Art and Professional of Dancing of the Principality of Asturias will
receive from the respective European Schools the accreditation of the marks
obtained by each Erasmus student.
These marks will be object to examination and therefore, of validation by
subjects and workshops of the Superior School of Dramatic Art and
Professional of Dancing of the Principality of Asturias programme. Even so, the
Pedagogic Coordination Board together with the knowledge and confirmation of
the Specialities, Departments and Head of Studies will have to make these
validations effective by signing the correspondent acts.
The Erasmus Programme Coordinator will give additional information to those
students who should require it.
STUDENTS WHO COME TO ESAD ASTURIAS
Each academic year ESAD ASTURIAS will receive the proposals of Erasmus
students from European Schools for the next academic year.
Regarding these proposals the Specialities will study the Erasmus students’
adaptation to the spaces of our centre, as well as the pedagogic aspects
(groups, timetables, work topics, etc.)
Having taken into consideration these proposals the Specialities will then accept
them. The acceptance will be communicated to the schools and then to the
candidates by the Artistic Promotion Department with enough time for them to
prepare.
The European students will receive information on the ESAD ASTURIAS
programme with enough time in advance. They will also be given information on
the city of Gijon and possible accommodations.

European students will be received at ESAD ASTURIAS by the Erasmus
Programme Coordinator, who will explain how the school works and will
introduce them to their corresponding speciality.
The documentation and procedures for Erasmus mobility are in the international
relations section of the website.
STUDENTS WHO GO ABROAD
ESAD ASTURIAS in each academic year will open a presentation period for
proposals of those students who would like to study in Europe. ESAD
ASTURIAS will also give a meeting with information on the requirements,
agreements with other schools and complementary information about the
ERASMUS programme.
Within this period the applications for the next year will be completed and send
to the assigned universities. These proposals will have the different options of
the ESAD ASTURIAS students interested in studying in Europe.
Regarding the proposals, ESAD ASTURIAS will wait for the response and
acceptance of the candidates by the different European Schools which they
have agreements with.
All the necessary documentation and registration to study in Europe the next
academic year will be dealt with once the confirmation has been received.
Upon the arrival of the ERASMUS student to the Superior School in Europe, he
/ she will be received by the Erasmus Coordinator of the mentioned entity. The
Erasmus Coordinator will be the student’s contact and tutor while abroad as
well as the Erasmus Coordinator of ESAD ASTURIAS.
Just because a candidacy has been presented it does not mean that the grant
will be given or that the student will be accepted by the accepting-assigned
Superior School.

ERASMUS.
Declaration of European Policy of ESAD ASTURIAS Erasmus Policy
Statement (EPS)
OBJECTIVES
- Give priority to the exchanges as an initiative to opening up to the
European Community.
- Fulfil the fundamental principles of the Erasmus mobility.
- Promote mobility through the elimination of obstacles to make the right of
free
circulation effective.
- Promote the European cooperation with regards to quality, in order to
develop
comparable criterions and methodology.
- Promote the elaboration of study programmes, cooperation between
institutions,
mobility programmes, integrated studies programmes, formation and
investigation.
- Guarantee quality, transparency, equality, integration, adequate
information,
acknowledgement, advertising and respect towards the policy and all that
regards the Erasmus activities in our institution.
- Start the process of founding the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS)
in
our centre.
- Begin the mobility of students and teachers with European countries of
Superior
Artistic Education from different countries during the academic year 2011 /
2012.
- Encourage the values found in the Declaration of Bologna and this way
contributes to the construction of European Space of Superior Education.
STRATEGIES
- Widen these horizons of exchange to other cultures.
- Establish contacts with various Superior Centres of Artistic Teaching from
European countries.
- Encourage permanent learning programmes for both teachers and
students.
- Promote the knowledge of other languages.
- Establish educational development projects with other institutions.
- Find the possibility of having work experience in the professional world.
- Find partner institutions wanting to share projects of pedagogic
investigation.
- Establish contacts with sponsoring financial entities.

- Adopt measures of transparency and updating regarding information on the
curriculums. Also include the studies plan on the web page and the
processes of
acknowledgement of the activities of the Erasmus programme.
- Organize a reception and accommodation plan for the students who are
taken in.
PRIORITIES
- Be integrated in the European Erasmus Network of Superior Centres of
Artistic
Teaching through the actions of mobility within the Permanent Learning
Programme.
- Found the European Credit System (ECTS) for the academic year 2010 -
2011.
- Increase the economic resources for projects through agreements with
local,
regional authorities and private companies.
- Make quality mobility, significant regarding our number of students;
respecting
the principles and adopting the necessary measures and strategies to
become a
referral point in Erasmus mobility within the framework of the Superior
Centres
of Artistic Teaching.
- Attract a large number of foreign students and teachers.
- Encourage the investigation about different educational aspects.
- On the one hand, develop synergies between areas of education and
vocational
formation and on the other, culture with the support of transversal projects.
- Advertise the Erasmus Programme in brochures of the centre.
- Advertise EPS on the web page and in the Secretary’s Office.
- Announce on a specific board exams, destinations and other actions within
the
programme.
- Inform the staff teachers and students using the school magazine,
meetings, email
and web page.
- Request information to specialized centres concerning education for
disabled
people to help the teaching staff whenever necessary.
- Encourage social cohesion, fight against xenophobia and racism doing
joint
activities.

HOW TO GET THERE. CONTACT.
Superior School of Dramatic Art and Professional of Dancing of the
Principality of Asturias
www.esadasturias.es
Laboral University. C/ Luis Moya Blanco, 261
33203. Gijón. Asturias. Spain.
Accesses Telephone
(+34) 985 18 55 40
Fax (+34) 985 18 55 54
e-mail: esad@educastur.princast.es
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
erasmusesadasturias@gmail.com